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Inbreeding
Mating of close relatives resulting in increased genetic uniformity in the offspring. (source: WCMC) Background from Wikipedia Inbreeding is breeding between close relatives, whether plant or animal. If practiced repeatedly, it often leads to a reduction in genetic diversity, and the increased expression of negative recessive traits, resulting in inbreeding depression. This may result in inbred individuals exhibiting reduced health and fitness and lower levels of fertility. Livestock breeders often practice inbreeding to "fix" desirable characteristics within a population. However, they must then cull unfit offspring, especially when trying to establish the new and desirable trait in their stock. Scientist,Of the 67 tigers that remain, some individuals have lost the ability to reproduce, and rampant inbreeding may have led to lower resistance to pathogens. Puppy Profits: Purebred pedigrees can boost profits - 22 Oct 2007 Tulsa World,In the worst cases, cramped conditions and inbreeding can create diseases, weakened immune systems and animal defects. ‘‘Some breeders sell sick or UT field lab faces uncertain future - 22 Oct 2007 Austin American-Statesman (subscription),The field lab functions not only as an outdoor classroom for biology students but also as a station for studies on fire ants, deer inbreeding, More good news for pygmy rabbits - 22 Oct 2007 Scientist,Workers have given up on recreating a population of 100% Columbia basin rabbits, because severe inbreeding has left them with compromised immune systems and Inbreeding called a way of life at local university - Oct 21, 2007 The Daily Advertiser,When an academic institution fills academic and administrative vacancies with its own graduates, the process is call inbreeding. Inbreeding is viewed by Tasmanian tumours blamed on inbreeding - Oct 7, 2007 Register,By Sarah Bee → More by this author Warning: Graphic content More evidence, if it were needed, that no good can come of indulging in cousin-coitus. Coronation the exception to inbreeding rule - Sep 28, 2007 Daily Racing Form (subscription),In the Thoroughbred world it is usually referred to in its euphemistic form, inbreeding, a term more generally employed to note the presence of an ancestor On the edge: Florida panther stands close to disappearing - Oct 20, 2007 Naples Daily News,...“I think we succeeded with finding out why its numbers were so low, and that was the inbreeding problem. But we failed over the last 25 years to buy the Australian wildlife could suffer deadly disease: researcher - Oct 10, 2007 AFPShe warned that other native fauna with a limited gene pool due to inbreeding and shrinking numbers -- including some koala and platypus populations -- were DEEDS OF FLESH To Enter Studio In November - Oct. 18, 2007 - Oct 18, 2007 Blabbermouth.net,...would be "over-the-top technical" and would include a re-recorded version of "Infecting Them With Falsehood" from 1998's "Inbreeding the Anthropophagi". Conservationists Track Wildlife - Oct 18, 2007 WNNE-TV,Conservation Ecologist Paul Marangelo said "Animals that are isolated can in some cases be more susceptible to disease through genetic inbreeding so one of Date Of Birth: 1957 - Oct 17, 2007 Chortle,On the other hand, the segment about people from some rural backwater being inbred just trots out the same old lines about inbreeding and Wicker Men Tasmanian devils face extinction - Oct 3, 2007 Science Daily (press release)...full article Inbreeding -- Mammals, most other animals, and higher plants as well, have ways to minimize inbreeding. An inbred individual is likely to Subdivision deal paves way for sports - Oct 15, 2007 Contra Costa Times,Nature has barriers against procreative inbreeding -- new research shows that animals don't like the smell of near kin. The intellectual world must also Search on for original brew - Oct 10, 2007 Calcutta Telegraph,The remedy, the Tocklai Experimental Station thinks, is to go for inbreeding of tea plants with the tea bushes found in the wild. Defense of Marriage Act could do more harm - Sep 24, 2007 Winona Daily News,Some people are just as tolerant of bestality and inbreeding as Stewart Shaw and others are of homosexuality. It's true. They are. Watson's Double-Helix Double-Bind Double-Reverse - Oct 20, 2007 Village Voice,Speaking of inbreeding, the lab was the melting pot of all sorts of wack theories and experiments concerning race, and many of them had nothing to do with Official wants to block city services - Oct 12, 2007 Louisville Courier-Journal,They should go to Lexington, GOD knows the problem they have with inbreeding could be helped with the addition to the gene pool. Dog Cruelty Case Continues - Oct 10, 2007 Kitsap Sun (Subscription),While animal control officers' reports of the raid included allegations of malnourishment, neglect and inbreeding, prosecutors honed in on two dogs — Tiger, Commenter Of The Day - Oct 9, 2007 Jalopnik,European royalty the blood line comes to a sad end, victims of degenerative diseases caused by excessive inbreeding and an inability to cross pollinate. Hannah George - Oct 9, 2007 Chortle,Her observational material, however, is mostly based on obvious, Route One, premises: the size of men’s dicks, the inbreeding in her native Isle of Wight, Protecting Africa’s remaining wild dogs - Oct 7, 2007 SABC News,The Endangered Wildlife Trust and the University of Pretoria have started a project to evaluate and determine inbreeding and relatedness of the remaining Goudie is right; ComEd is wrong - Sep 27, 2007 Chicago Daily Herald,These compensation committees are somewhat like "inbreeding". If you are on my company's compensation committee and I'm on yours, guess what happens to my Life on all fours - Oct 16, 2007 Times Online,He went to many doctors and hospitals, including the best in Baghdad, but they sent him away saying the problem was congenital, or the result of inbreeding, A new look at the good book - Oct 18, 2007 Escanaba Daily Press,The Bible rivals the movie, “Deliverance,� for tales of inbreeding (Genesis 19:33). Add a little gore (Judges 4:21) and some cannibalism (2 Kings 6:29), The l’eau down on present trends in anti-Scots feeling south of ... - Oct 13, 2007 Sunday Herald,Leading the evidence is Peter York, the style guru's style guru, who has rushed to print with an updated version of his guide to inbreeding and The Incest Taboo - Oct 17, 2007 American Chronicle,In many other species inbreeding or straightforward incest are the norm. Finally, in most countries, incest prohibitions apply also to Communist Cat Lovers and Urban Redevelopment - Oct 17, 2007 CNSNews.com,..."If we can't find any wild South China tigers, they will certainly disappear because of the inbreeding," said Huang Zhihong, a Chinese zoologist. The next commuter lane at the 405 may be for wildlife - Oct 10, 2007 Los Angeles Times,405 would help animals flee when disease or fire affects them on either side, Edelman said, and avoid isolating them in a way that leads to inbreeding. Brown: By any other name - Oct 16, 2007 Times Record News,Officials are even studying the genetics of the cats to insure they stay healthy and aren't inbreeding where numbers are scarce. The World’s Most Exclusive Kennel Club Presents - Oct 16, 2007 Dissident Voice,Only sustained inbreeding could have produced a dog so utterly useless for any purpose beyond inducing sleep in himself and others. Yellowstone park bison numbers up 17 percent - Oct 15, 2007 Jackson Hole News,The Yellowstone bison herd is important, McNamara said, because it’s one of the last to avoid inbreeding with cattle. “Scientists have been able to say with BUFFALO FARMING IN THAILAND - Oct 5, 2007 Bangkok Post,Inbreeding is forbidden because it leads to weak and small offspring. Her farm now has about 30 employees, some of whom used to work in her factory that Inbred tassie devils face extinction: study - Oct 3, 2007 ABC Online,The problem is a lack of genetic diversity because of inbreeding. The scientists say their genetic work reveals that there is such a lack of diversity in The Backwoods - Oct 1, 2007 Hollywood Reporter,...a feral-looking girl (with deformed hands buttressing our assumption she's the product of backwoods inbreeding) chained up in an abandoned barn. Spot a wild dog and help save the species - Oct 14, 2007 Sunday Times,...“This information will help in the conservation management of the wild dogs, particularly in smaller protected areas where inbreeding is a potentially I love the hiss of espresso machines - Sep 30, 2007 Times Online,The city is the exclusive club we’ve made for human beings, where we’ve eliminated things like mud, wolves, mosquitoes, quicksand, loneliness and inbreeding Not so jolly this year - Oct 14, 2007 Canoe.ca (subscription),And if you bring up their height or the pointy ears, they just look ashamed and mumble something about generations of inbreeding. Enough about the elves, pit bulls have their defenders - Sep 26, 2007 AZ Central.com,CJ Bentley, a behavior specialist for the Michigan Humane Society in Rochester Hills, said inbreeding among pit bulls, common among backstreet breeders, First-cousin Marriages Affect Infant Mortality, But Not As Much As ... - Sep 25, 2007 Science Daily (press release)Science Daily — Understanding whether inbreeding accounts for early mortality is a long-standing concern in demographic research. Bangalore: Tigress gives birth to triplets - Images - Oct 12, 2007 Mangalorean.com,...captive animal and another from the wild was necessary to avoid the likely infections and deformities resulting from inbreeding of captive animals. A successful program to reintroduce foxes to the wild - Oct 12, 2007 Scripps News,DNA was gleaned from blood samples to make sure no inbreeding occurred. On Santa Cruz, 18 "founding" foxes produced 85 offspring. On San Miguel Island, Zoo sticks its neck out to breed - Oct 12, 2007 Shanghai Daily,The breeding improvement program is designed to avoid inbreeding and improve bloodlines and the zoo has exchanged other animals this year in the same Zoo has a lot to howl about - Oct 11, 2007 TheNewsTribune.com (subscription),Because closely related wolves who breed together have more health defects, the breeding staff at Point Defiance had to be careful to prevent inbreeding. Underpasses keep wildlife on track - Oct 10, 2007 Knoxville News Sentinel,...hair traps to see if habitat fragmentation created by the highway results in smaller, more isolated populations that could lead to inbreeding. Smallest living dog-world record set by Boo Boo - Oct 10, 2007 World Records Academy,I just don’t believe in breeding them to death or inbreeding.� Mrs Elswick told an American newspaper that the Chihuahua is a total diva, and her favourite Fort Lewis becomes new home for gray squirrels - Oct 10, 2007 The Olympian,That’s not enough of the short-lived critters to ensure their survival from inbreeding, outbreak of disease or some other catastrophe. The Morris Minor Family Tree - Oct 9, 2007 Jalopnik,BY TINACHOW AT 02:39 PM Like all European royalty the blood line comes to a sad end, victims of degenerative diseases caused by excessive inbreeding and an SPIDER BABY: DIRECTOR'S CUT (DVD) - Oct 9, 2007 Film Threat,Thanks to decades of inbreeding, the once wealthy family of the Merryes, who lived up on a hill in a large mansion have all digressed into raving Transfer program aids dogs - Oct 8, 2007 Deseret News,The puppies, which often have genetic disorders because of inbreeding, are sold to brokers, on the Internet, through newspapers or directly from the mill to News index | RSS | News Feed Advertisements: Organic Apparel from Patagonia | Insect-repelling clothing |
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